Make more money from your customers via affiliate links and virus renewal?

[Appleby]

Here is the plain and simple truth.

1) There is TONS of money to made in affiliate marketing. You just have to have HUGE amounts of traffic to your website to get enough clicks to generate a good income. Or you have to get your links in front of alot people over and over right before they are about to buy a product on a website anyway. ie: They are about to go to Amazon but they click through your affiliate link and you make the commission.

2) The idea presented by the OP is genius....if you a European scammer. Think about the potential profit that could be made through this scheme by infecting computers in mass. Forget the fake scareware AV's that demand $99 to "clean" the infections. This could be so much bigger for the scammers over a long term.

Seriously, I can't get customers to the very very basics of every day computing. They can't tell me if they use IE or Firefox, Outlook or Yahoo, XP for Vista. But I'm somehow going to explain to them that I'm manipulating their search results to display links that will in turn make me money? Um, ya I'm sure that will go over well. Then wait until they tell their friends or the next computer guy about this....knowing they don't understand it and won't explain it right. I can't imagine setting yourself up for a worse PR nightmare.

 

[Xander]

Wow. After reading the original suggestion, I feel like I need a shower.

 

[goldmercury]

Probably best if we can lock this thread - if anyone is interested in helping me get this idea up and running PM me.

 

[K007]

Probably best if we can lock this thread - if anyone is interested in helping me get this idea up and running PM me.

Although I could do it, it does have it's implications.
The sure way to get it done is to have the script and a GUI front-end for modifying it written by a pro. Go to http://www.rentacoder.com and you'll have it done in no time for maybe $100 or so.

 

[notto]

i would create a database and tell the client if i put the AV on there that i would let them know that i will inform them when there av is about to expire.

that way the customer knows/think i care about them and there computer whilst i am still making money by being able to sell them a key again.

I know trend micro has a great system for resellers to track clients.

However i lean towards
Kaspersky & Avira.
Soon to also sell malwarebytes hopefully.

 

[Pc Fixed Right]

You are NOT the first person to think of this and or implement it lol. Hp, Compaq, Dell, IBM, all the big players include their affiliate link for things like eBay, Norton, McAfee, trend micro, etc...so all of you nay sayers are losing money on the basics. Some of the other ideas the OP has will more than likely violate the "tos" for most affiliate links. Be prepared to be sued by the merchants when you get "caught" because you are leaning towards being a black hat marketer with little integrity, values and short term gains.

 

[Xander]

Here's the thing: If all you do is throw a few bookmarks on their system to eBay, Amazon, etc that had you affiliate ID included... fine. The act of clicking is enough of an opt-in. Hell, include a custom home page that includes some sort of Referral ID.

However, if you go through the trouble of scripting things so that no matter where they go, you're getting a slice of their pie, I would find that disreputable. If Joe Blow types in 'amazon.com' and you force your refID on them... that's underhanded.

 

[vdub12]

Probably best if we can lock this thread - if anyone is interested in helping me get this idea up and running PM me.

I like that, Please lock this so I don't get any more bad comments. lol

My dad use to always say if you don't want to here the truth don't ask the question.

You are NOT the first person to think of this and or implement it lol. Hp, Compaq, Dell, IBM, all the big players include their affiliate link for things like eBay, Norton, McAfee, trend micro, etc...so all of you nay sayers are losing money on the basics. Some of the other ideas the OP has will more than likely violate the "tos" for most affiliate links. Be prepared to be sued by the merchants when you get "caught" because you are leaning towards being a black hat marketer with little integrity, values and short term gains.

This is true, however, whenever I set up a new system for a customer I always decrapify it. I think this is what separates us from the big businesses. If we do things like this then we are no better then BB/GS who charge ridicules prices hoping that people will just buy a new computer.

I am all for maximizing profits but not at the expense of the industry as a hole.

 

[K007]

However, if you go through the trouble of scripting things so that no matter where they go, you're getting a slice of their pie, I would find that disreputable. If Joe Blow types in 'amazon.com' and you force your refID on them... that's underhanded.

You didn't understand anything from what I have written about OP's idea.
That tells (me at least) how far is your knowledge stretching on the subject.

 

[K007]

I like that, Please lock this so I don't get any more bad comments. lol
This is true, however, whenever I set up a new system for a customer I always decrapify it. I think this is what separates us from the big businesses. If we do things like this then we are no better then BB/GS who charge ridicules prices hoping that people will just buy a new computer.

I am all for maximizing profits but not at the expense of the industry as a hole.

Finally someone who's concern is the industry as a "whole" not a "hole"


Big words from regular Joe ... what can be more altruistic?

 

[Xander]

K007, were your cornflakes particularly urine-covered this morning?

Am I a web coder? Nope. Nor do I claim to be. I do claim to be an honest business man who doesn't make effort to squeeze stolen pennies from customers... but it sounds like a subject that you're unfamiliar with.

 

[vdub12]

Finally someone who's concern is the industry as a "whole" not a "hole"


Big words from regular Joe ... what can be more altruistic?

Well at least the only comeback you have is my spelling.

Thats what you use when you have nothing else.

 

[lgtechcomputers]

I won't even finish reading this thread...

Just the mention of script injection sounds fishy...
I would find this rather fishy if my tech asked me and I'd likely say no way...

I'd say you can get creative but this is going a bit too far...
In my opinion, you open yourself for liability...

good luck anyway.